COLLECTION GUIDES

1783-1932

Guide to the Collection


Collection Summary

Creator: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882
Title: Henry W. Bellows papers
Dates: 1783-1932
Physical Description: 98 document boxes and 1 oversize box
Call Number: Ms. N-1829
Repository:
Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston StreetBoston, MA 02215library@anasaziadventure.com

Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Unitarian clergyman Henry Whitney Bellows of New York City. Included are letters, diaries, addresses, sermons, reports, dissertations, legal documents, and a schedule of properties.

Collection Description

This collection consists of the papers of Unitarian clergyman Henry Whitney Bellows of New York City. Included are letters, diaries, addresses, sermons, reports, dissertations, legal documents, and a schedule of properties. Correspondence between 1831 and 1882 relates to Bellows' religious work, his interest in Antioch College (1859-1872), his work with the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and his editorship of the Christian Examiner. Chief correspondents include Bellows' parents, his brothers Edward and John, Cyrus A. Bartol, James F. Clarke, and Edward Everett Hale. Other correspondents include George T. Curtis, Theodore Dorr, O. C. Everett, H. W. Foote, Amos Adams Lawrence, Charles Mason, and William Silsbee. The collection also contains extensive correspondence of minister Russell N. Bellows, Anna L. Bellows (a teacher at the Hampton Institute, later Hampton University), Anna H. P. Bellows, and some earlier correspondence of Eliza N. T. Bellows.

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Acquisition Information

Gift of Robert P. Bellows and Ellen Bellows Endicott, 1933.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

I. Chronological papers, 1783-1907

Box 1
1783-1836
Box 2
1837-May 1839
Box 3
June 1839-1840
Box 4
1841-1843
Box 5
1844-1846
Box 6
1847-1848
Box 7
1849-1850
Box 8
1851-1853
Box 9
1854-May 1856
Box 10
June 1856–1857
Box 11
1858
Box 12
Jan.–Oct. 1859
Box 13
Nov. 1859–Aug. 1860
Box 14
Sep. 1860–Apr. 1861
Box 15
May–Nov. 1861
Box 16
Dec. 1861–May 1862
Box 17
June–Oct. 1862
Box 18
Nov. 1862–May 1863
Box 19
June–Dec. 1863
Box 20
Jan.–June 1864
Box 21
July–Dec. 1864
Box 22
Jan.–June 1865
Box 23
July–Dec. 1865
Box 24
Jan.–May 1866
Box 25
June–Oct. 1866
Box 26
Nov. 1866–Apr. 1867
Box 27
May 1867–May 1868
Box 28
June–Oct. 1868
Box 29
Nov. 1868–Feb. 1869
Box 30
Mar.–Sep. 1869
Box 31
Oct. 1869–Feb. 1870
Box 32
Mar.-Sep. 1870
Box 33
Oct. 1870–June 1871
Box 34
July 1871–Mar. 1872
Box 35
Apr. 1872–Jan. 1873
Box 36
Feb.–Dec. 1873
Box 37
Jan.–May 1874
Box 38
June-Nov. 1874
Box 39
Dec. 1874–Apr. 1875
Box 40
May–Sep. 1875
Box 41
Oct. 1875–May 1876
Box 42
June 1876–Feb. 1877
Box 43
Mar.–Oct. 1877
Box 44
Nov. 1877–May 1878
Box 45
June–Nov. 1878
Box 46
Dec. 1878–Apr. 1879
Box 47
May–Oct. 1879
Box 48
Nov. 1879–Mar. 1880
Box 49
Apr.–July 1880
Box 50
Aug.–Dec. 1880
Box 51
Jan.–June 1881
Box 52
July–Nov. 1881
Box 53
Dec. 1881–Feb. 1882
Box 54
Mar.–Nov. 1882
Box 55
Dec. 1882–May 1883
Box 56
June 1883–Apr. 1884
Box 57
May–Nov. 1884
Box 58
Dec. 1884–Apr. 1885
Box 59
May–Nov. 1885
Box 60
Dec. 1885–Mar. 1886
Box 61
Apr.–Oct. 1886
Box 62
Nov. 1886–Apr. 1887
Box 63
May–Nov. 1887
Box 64
Dec. 1887–Mar. 1888
Box 65
Apr.–Oct. 1888
Box 66
Nov. 1888–Feb. 1889
Box 67
Mar.–Aug. 1889
Box 68
Sep. 1889–Jan. 1890
Box 69
Feb.–Aug. 1890
Box 70
Sep.–Dec. 1890
Box 71
Jan.–Oct. 1891
Box 72
Nov. 1891–Apr. 1892
Box 73
May–Nov. 1892
Box 74
Dec. 1892–July 1893
Box 75
Aug.–Dec. 1893
Box 76
Jan.–Sep. 1894
Box 77
Oct. 1894–Mar. 1895
Box 78
Apr.–Oct. 1895
Box 79
Nov. 1895–July 1896
Box 80
Aug. 1896–June 1897
Box 81
July 1897–Sep. 1899
Box 82
Oct. 1899–July 1900
Box 83
Aug. 1900–Apr. 1901
Box 84
May–Dec. 1901
Box 85
Jan.–Sep. 1902
Box 86
Oct. 1902–Aug. 1903
Box 87
Sep. 1903–Sep. 1904
Box 88
Oct. 1904–Aug. 1905
Box 89
Sep. 1905–Feb. 1907
Box 90
Mar.–Dec. 1907
Box 90
Undated papers18 folders.

II. Sermons, addresses, and misc. papers, 1835-1882

Box 91
Sermons, 1837–Feb. 1872
Box 92
Sermons, Mar. 1872–1881 and undated
Box 93
Addresses, discourses, essays, lectures, speeches, writings, 1835–1882
Box 94
Addresses, discourses, etc., undated

Arranged alphabetically by title or topic.

Box 95
Estate papers, genealogical notes, misc. notes and writings, fragments of speeches, etc.18 folders.

III. Volumes (mss.), 1832-1893

Box 96
1832–1868
Box 97
1877–1893

IV. Printed matter, 1832-1932

Box 97
Pamphlets, 1832–1879
Box 98
Pamphlets, 1881–1898
Box 98
Miscellaneous printed matter, 1851–1898
Box 98
Newspaper clippings, 1859–1932

V. Items dummied out from loose papers

Box OS
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Preferred Citation

Henry W. Bellows papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

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Access Terms

This collection is indexed under the following headings in ABIGAIL, the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should search the catalog using these headings.

Persons:

Bartol, C. A. (Cyrus Augustus), 1813-1900.
Bellows, Anna Huidekoper Peabody, 1838-1920.
Bellows, Anna Langdon, 1845-1906.
Bellows, Edward.
Bellows, Eliza Nevins Townsend, 1818-1869.
Bellows family.
Bellows, John.
Bellows, Russell Nevins, 1842-1914.
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888.
Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894.
Dorr, Theodore.
Everett, O. C. (Oliver Capen), 1811-1875.
Foote, Henry Wilder, 1838-1889.
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909.
Lawrence, Amos Adams, 1814-1886.
Mason, Charles, 1812-1862.
Silsbee, William.

Organizations:

Antioch College.
Hampton Institute.
United States Sanitary Commission.

Subjects:

African Americans--Education--Virginia--Hampton.
Christian examiner.
Clergy--New York (State)--New York.
Educators.
Reformers--New York (State)--New York.
Sermons.
Unitarian churches--Clergy.

Revised 30 May 2018

Encoded by Susan Martin, February 2016.